Comments on: WSJ: Motorola to Spend $500 Million Marketing the Moto X, All Major Carriers, Limited Bloatwarehttp://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/10/wsj-motorola-to-spend-500-million-marketing-the-moto-x-all-major-carriers-limited-bloatware/
An intense Android news community bringing you the latest in phones, rooting, apps, and reviews.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:44:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: cheeto0http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/10/wsj-motorola-to-spend-500-million-marketing-the-moto-x-all-major-carriers-limited-bloatware/comment-page-1/#comment-2939525
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 02:48:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2939525laptop magazine already said it runs smoother than the galaxy s4. It has a high end gpu, the smallest physical phone that has a large 4.7″ display. I think the fact that it’s near stock android puts ahead of a lot of high end phones.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:35:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2909445Didn’t say I wanted it right now. Besides that, it’s rumored to be released later this year, not 8 months from now.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:30:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2909436500 million on marketing. what?
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:39:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2909408Have you guys taken into consideration that maybe Google and Motorola are leaking this info on purpose, and it may be the wrong info, just to surprise you at the announcement? Just saying…
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:37:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2909407Ohmygod the Samsung Intercept is a piece of trash. I had the following phone after that, the Samsung Transform. I’d rather have a BlackBerry at that point then keep that PoS.
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:21:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908517Keep hoping and waiting. I hope you don’t need a new phone for at least 8 months. Cause it ain’t coming any time soon.
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 04:26:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908456Except this isn’t necessarily a mid-range phone, is it? It seems like this is being treated as a flagship. I agree, it’s ridiculous for any manufacturer to use hardware limitations as an excuse for not updating a phone. Especially considering that the Nexus S made it to Jellybean. The thing is, the reason that happens to mid-range phones is because they aren’t treated as flagships, so the manufacturers don’t feel obligated to update them. If Google spends half a billion on marketing for this phone and it sells well like it’s expected to, I highly doubt Google would even let motorola cut the device off. If this was the same capital letter “M” Motorola that released the RAZR a couple months after the Bionic then I would probably be very wary as well, but this is the start of a reformed motorola, and with Google’s holding their hand with this one, I feel a lot more confident.
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:23:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908391Doesn’t matter if we have proof or not of it’s existence. It’s there and has been since most of these rumors began (there were always two devices, the XFON and the Moto X), one of them is the hero, one is the mid-range. They are not the same device.
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:18:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908387For the record I’m still on the S3. My wife does have an S4 though and I’m not noticing much of a difference other than the screen on the S4 is even better than the S3. I haven’t tried the S4 since it recently updated so who knows, it could be better or worse, I don’t know.

My point is that after being stuck with a Motorola phone that was mid-range on specs, only to see it never upgraded beyond the major version of Android it shipped with, I will never buy mediocre again. While your experience may have different, I am very soured toward mid-range phones for that very fact. To be told its not capable of being upgraded due to a limitation in hardware spec was NOT what I was expecting from a 2011 phone.

Depending on manufacturer, and even down to different manufacturer phone models, experiences may vary. I know mine did and I could not in good conscience recommend a mid or low end phone to a friend (unless money was an absolute factor)

Peace

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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:41:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908367My point is that my sister spends a ton of money on phones, and it’s never the specs she cares about, it’s the user experience. The Moto X could very easily have a user experience comparable to these other “high end” phones. Hell, I could easily see it running better than the S4. In fact, please explain the S4, The S4 has the best specs of any phone this year, yet it lags. It’s choppy, and it isn’t even on par with last year’s models in terms of fluidity and performance. So let me lay this out for you: In terms of specs, S3 S4 (based on reviews and experience handling my sisters’ S3s and the S4 at Best Buy).

Also, I’m not on my sisters’ contract plans. I’ve been on pre-paid ever since I got my first phone (from Virgin Mobile to T-Mobile). My first smartphone was the Samsung Intercept, so believe me, I KNOW what a crappy user experience is like. That was 2010, and I’ve followed smartphone news ever since. I assure you, I am not new to this. If you want to follow my smartphone journey, here it is, the best I can remember:

The important phone there is the Nexus S, which I bought (used, from eBay) when it was a year old. I used it for a little more than a year, and it performed perfectly. I never experienced a single performance issue the entire time I owned it, nor has my friend who I passed it on to, who is STILL using the phone, and uses it for playing emulated PlayStation games and other graphic heavy games in the Play Store. The phone had a very mediocre spec sheet when it came out, and it lasted WELL beyond its expiration date. The only thing that slowed the support for the phone was the lackluster RAM. That’s all, really. The processor has no real trouble keeping up, it was pretty much the RAM that left it stranded officially on 4.1.

Guess what. The Nexus S came out pre-ICS, back when specs really were the determining factor of an Android smartphone. In 2010 and 2011, I would have agreed 100% that good specs were REQUIRED for a good phone, but things are different in Android land these days. As of Jellybean, the performance difference between high end phones and mid-range phones is incredibly small. A dropped frame or two here or there seems to be the biggest difference. My LG Optimus L9 has specs that are crappy even by standards set 2 years ago. The phone performs like a dream. Buttery smooth. It just about never slows down, except in less-than-impressively coded segments of LG’s UI. Even sifting through the homescreen is more fluid on my L9 than the S4 I tried at the store. If a lousy 1GHz Dual Core TI-OMAP processor can run something smoother than a 1.9 GHz Quad Core Snapdragon Processor with every single core being far more powerful and efficient, then there’s clearly something more powerful than specs at work here. If Motorola is optimizing the software well for the S4 Pro chip, which seems to be what they’ve been working on all year, I wouldn’t be one bit surprised to see the the X blow the S4 out of the water in terms of user experience. Especially considering the S4 Pro is hardly a crappy processor, EVEN by today’s standards (same GPU as the 600, with CPU cores only being marginally better on the 600).

By the way, if Samsung treats future versions of Android similar to how they treated 4.2, I assure you, the S4 will not be “kickin it” in the next update. With all its specs, it’s hardly “kickin it” now.

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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:28:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908283You bring a comparison with your sister that gets a new phone every month and how specs don’t matter….well NS! She never keeps it long enough to matter. By the time that phone gets down the line in your family, it STILL is fairly new.

You go buy your mid-range phone and I’ll buy my high end one. When a future OS version runs laggy and slow only just a year or two down the road and mine is still kickin it, you go ahead and tell me that specs don’t matter. I take it you haven’t ever used a phone past 1 year or are new to the smart phone scene.

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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:06:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908203If the JACKWAGONS at Motorola had of released the ICS update for the Atrix 4G (as they promised and cancancelled after the scheduled release date), I would still be a loyal Motorola fan and consumer. I couldn’t give a rats ass at this point of anything Motorola.
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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:45:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2908013They really need to undercut this in pricing. No way it can go toe to toe with the HTC one or GS4 especially with the Note 3 coming out.
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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:19:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2907984Guess I left out the whole rooted and unlocked thing huh? I run Eclipse. And Jesus Christ that phone is perfect.. Owned an S3, wasn’t impressed. and battery life? Pfft. no.
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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:27:00 +0000http://www.droid-life.com/?p=113817#comment-2907907“It’s obvious where I’m going to spend my money on.”
“…33,000 feet in the air in my private Learjet…”

Writes at a 5th grade level. Claims to own a Learjet.

Something tells me blootz just acquired some new greens that make him feel like he’s flying…